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Famous Dyslexics
Here is a list of famous people who happen to be dyslexic. It is important to note that these people have become successful because of their gift of dyslexia, not in spite of it.| Thomas Edison Famed inventor and businessman  "My teachers say I'maddled...my father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided I was a dunce." "I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." | Richard Branson | |
| Walt Disney Film producer and director, founder of The Walt Disney Company  "Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language." | Leonardo da Vinci Inventor, painter, architect, engineer, musician and anatomist  "You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills." | |
| Whoopi Goldberg Oscar-winning actress  "When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia... you were slow, or you were retarded or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid and I knew I wasn't dumb. If you read to me I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?" | Jackie Stewart Three time Formula One racing champion  "For a dyslexic who does not yet know they are dyslexic, life is like a big high wall you never think you will be able to climb or get over. The moment you understand there is something called dyslexia, and there are ways around the problem, the whole world opens up" | |
Albert Einstein | Keira Knightley Oscar-nominated actress  "I remember going to anaudition when I was eight, and it was the most excruciating experience because I couldn't read the lines. So I had to learn. My desire to act was my driving force. I got really good help from some amazing teachers and my mother and my father worked tirelessly with me, so by the time I was eleven I had... overcame the dyslexia and now it's not really a problem." | |
| Agatha Christie Author of 80 mystery novels, and the best-selling fiction writer of all time.  "I, myself, was alwaysrecognized... as the 'slow one' in the family... Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was... an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day." | Winston Churchill
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| Pablo Picasso Famed painter and sculptor  "For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography." | Muhammad Ali | |
| Orlando Bloom Actor  "I suppose my dyslexia...made me feel that I wasn't smart enough. I was always bright, but I found it hard in the classroom. Once I passed my exams, I felt better because I knew that I could do it if I applied myself." | Cher Singer and Oscar-winning actress  "When I was in school it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned I had tolearn by listening... Don't focus on how dyslexia makeslife tougher... instead... hear the invisible voices of creativity that sing louder in your heart than those less fortunate people who have not been given our gift... Make peace with it and fly!" | |
| Nelson Rockefeller Former Governor of New York, 41st Vice President of the United States of America  "I was one of the 'puzzlechildren' myself - a dyslexic... And I still have a hard time reading today. Accept the fact that you have a problem. Refuse to feel sorry for yourself. You have a challenge; never quit!"
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| Gwen Stefani Grammy-award winning singer  "It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere." | George Burns Actor and comedian  "For me the toughest thing about dyslexia was learning to spell it." | |
| Danny Glover Actor and director  "Perhaps had I not beendyslexic, I might have chosen a different profession. Acting gave me a way of expressing some of that inner life that was raging inside me as result of dyslexia." | Bruce Jenner Gold medal-winning Olympian  "I just barely got throughschool. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was nowhere to get help. A champion lives deep down inside each one of us. Find the area in your life you can excel in, and dare yourself to be the best you can possibly be." |
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